The Hamlet Fire : A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives

For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Simon, Bryant (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Imperial Food Products. > Plant (Hamlet, N.C.) > Fire, 1991.
Employers' liability.
Industrial safety > Government policy.
Poultry plants > Fires and fire prevention.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Securite du travail > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Industrial safety > Government policy > United States.
Employers' liability > North Carolina > Hamlet.
Poultry plants > Fires and fire prevention > North Carolina > Hamlet.
United States.
North Carolina > Hamlet.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Hamlet
  • 2. Silence
  • 3. Chicken
  • 4. Labor
  • 5. Bodies
  • 6. Deregulation
  • 7. Endings
  • Epilogue
  • In Memoriam
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Z
  • About the Author

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